Adjustable drapery hook with track



April 5, 1960 J. N. GRABER 2,931,612

ADJUSTABLE DRAPERY Hoox WITH TRACK Filed Feb. 18, 1957 0 i0 z/ ZINVENTOR JOHN N. GRABER ATTORNEYS United States Patent C ADJUSTABLEDRAPERY HOOK WITH TRACK John N. Graber, Middleton, Wis., assignor toGraber Manufacturing Company, Inc., Middleton, Wis., a corporationApplication February 18, 1957, Serial No. 640,732

1 Claim. (Cl. 248-214) This invention appertains to a novel device forconnecting drapes to the slides or runers of traverse rods and the like.I

One of the primary objects of my present invention is to provide aneiective means for adjustably connecting the supporting hooks with theirdrapery connecting means, so that the hooks can be quickly adjustedmanually and then automatically held in such adjusted positions by theinherent resiliency of the hook members, the arrangement being such thatthe weight of the drapery functions as additional means for holding thehook mem` bers in their selected adjusted positions against accidentaldisplacemnet.

Another salient object of my invention is the provision of a guide platemember more or less permanently secured to the drape heading with asupporting hook slidable thereon and having a resilient detent adaptedto engage in a selected keeper notch or opening with the detent soplaced relative to the guide plate member that weight (the drape) on theplate member acts to further hold the detent in its latched position.

A further important object of my invention is to provide novel means forforming the guide plate member and the supporting hook, whereby the hookis carried on the guide plate for free sliding movement upon release ofthe resilient latch member. l

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in thenovel construction, arrangement and formation of parts, as will behereinafter more specifically described and claimed and illustrated inthe accompanying drawings, in which drawings, Figure 1 is a fragmentaryperspective view illustratin one form of lmy drapery supporting deviceincorporated with the heading of a drape;

Figure 2 is a front elevational view of the drapery supporting device,parts of the view being shown broken away and in section to illustratestructural detail;

Figure 3-is a longitudinal sectional view through the drapery supportingdevice taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 2, looking in the direction ofthe arrows, the view showing in dotted lines the released position ofthe slide hook;

Figure 4 is a transverse sectional view through thev drapery supportingdevice taken on the line 4-4 of Figure 2, looking in the direction ofthe arrows.

Referring to the drawings in detail, wherein similar referencecharacters designate corresponding parts throughout the several viewsthe letter S generally indicates one preferred form ot my improvedsupporting device for a drape D.

The drape D can be of any preferred character and 2,931,612 PatentedApr. 5, 1960 ICC as shown includes the heading 15 having the usualpleats 16.

`Thc supporting device S comprises a guide plate or track 17 which isadapted to be secured in any preferred manner to the heading 15,preferably atthe pleats 16. As shown in Figure 1, the plate 17 can besecured to the drape by stitches 18 which can be passed through suitableopenings 19 which also form keepers. The openings 19 extend in alongitudinal central line. The plate 17 can beformed from any desiredmaterial, such as metal or plastic, and can be conveniently formed vbyextrusion. The plate is provided with inwardly directed longitudinallyextending guide anges 20 which in conjunction with the body portion ofthe plate 17 form guide tracks for slidably receiving the supportinghook member 21.

The supporting hook member 21 also kcan be formed from any desiredmaterial, and includes a base 22 of a shape and size to be snuglyreceived within the flanges 20 for longitudinal sliding movement. Formedon the upper edge of the base 21 is a resilient hook 23 having a bill 24adapted `to be placed over a rod or in openings in slides or runners.The hook 23 at a point adjacent to the base 21 is provided withastruck-in latch lug 24 and this latch lug is adapted to engage in aselected keeper opening 20. The normal inherent resiliency of the hook2,3 holds the latch lug 24 in engagement with the walls of a selectedkeeper opening. Obviously, by springing the hook 23 outwardly, as shownin dotted lines in Figure 3, the latch lug can be moved from vout ofengagement with the walls of the keeper opening and thus the entire hookmember can be slid up and down on its guide plate or track as may bedesired. Obviously, the weight of the drape on the hook 23 functions tohold the hook toward the guide plate and the latch lug 24' in a keeperopening.

Hence, by merely actuating the hook 23 the entire hook member can bereadily adjusted relative to the drape heading without disturbing thedrape or the guide track 1'7, any way whatsoever.

Changes in details may be made without departing from the spirit or thescope of this invention, but what I claim as new is:

An adjustable drapery supporting device comprising a guide plate adaptedto be secured to the heading of a Ydrape and to extend longitudinallythereof having inwardly directed ilanges on its side edges cooperatingwith the plate to form a guide track, said plate having a longitudinallyextending line of keeper openings, a supporting hook member including abase slidable between said ilanges on the guide plate, and a downwardlyopening hook at the upper end of said base for. engaging a supportingrod of a less width than s'ad base and extending outwardly between saidflanges, said hook having an inwardly extending latch lug on its innerface normally held in a selected keeper opening by the inherentresiliency of the hook and the downward pull of the drape carried by theguide plate.

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